Noah Allison

Noah Allison
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Urban and Public Policy, The New School

Noah Allison is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Culinaria Research Centre. As an urban and social scholar, he produces new knowledge and understanding between humans and built environments. Noah’s research specifically explores everyday city life at the intersection of migration, politics of difference, care work, and governance in order to understand how to make societies more equitable, viable, healthy, and meaningful. His interdisciplinary work connects theories and methodologies from social sciences, design disciplines, and the humanities. At Culinaria, Noah is the co-lead of Feeding City, a lab dedicated to combating food insecurity and promoting food sovereignty in the Greater Toronto Area through community engagement and international collaborations. Throughout the fellowship, Noah will also complete his first book manuscript titled “Immigrant Foodways: Identity, Life Making, and Power in Queens, New York.” This ethnography explores how diversity—as a racial ideology—is used and contested through practices of cooking, eating, and selling food in one of North America’s most socially heterogeneous urban areas.